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Roll Your Own Beatdown

November 18, 2017 Waxjob

THE SCENE:

Insanely warm for min-November. About 50 with a decent breeze. Weird overnight conditions – no dew at all. Will have to rely solely on perspiration for evidence of commitment to the beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Standard welcome, 2 FNGs today!

WARM-O-RAMA:

Zero Burpees
SSH x30 IC
2 Burpees OYO
TN rocking chairs x15 IC
4 Burpees OYO
Forward Nose Wiper Merkins x10 IC
6 Burpees OYO
Al Gore Tuck Jumps IC (I think we might have gotten 6
8 Burpees OYO
Windmills x15 IC
10 Burpees OYO
LBAC x15 each way IC

THA-THANG:
Blacksnake around the park, long way around to the playground, stopping halfway for 10 more burpees
At the playground: 1 and 1, 2 and 2, etc up to 5 and 5 of pull-ups and headstand pushups
Bernie up the hill and mosey to the soccer field. Partner up for a game of chance.

On a table are two dice, one white and one blue. White one specifies exercise, blue one specifies mode of transportation:
White

Squirkins x20 each
Pattycake BBS x35
Hi/Low 5 Burpees x15
Over/Unders x10 each
Partner Pistol Squat x15 each leg
Partner Leg Throwdowns x25 each

Blue

Wheelbarrow
Partner Drag
Partner Carry
AYG Sprint
Bear Crawl
Leap Frog

Roll both dice (doubles earns 5 burpees immediately – Only happened once), travel 30 yards as specified by Blue die, then do exercise specified by white. Return to the table, switching partner role for transport as necessary. Plank etc. for the 6, R&R

Right before returning to the AO, we were at 45 burpees for the day (not counting the partner Hi/Low). Everyone crank out 5 more for the even 50, then mosey to the AO.

MARY:

Boat/Canoe (no rowing today. Too hoarse to sing due to a cold last week…)
Hello Dolly x20 IC
Peter Parkers with Tank
Side Crunch x15 IC each side
Abbreviated Merkin Ring of Fire (Round of 5, then 4, no time for 3-2-1)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 PAX strong, including 2 FNGs: Welcome to Steve Glenn – Mr. Clean (Respect) and Robert Alexander – Bratwurst
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Last week I had the privilege of chaperoning my daugher’s 7th grade class trip to Washington DC. Friday morning before we left we were able to attend the changing of the guard and a wreath laying with taps at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It’s one of the most moving things you can witness there in Washington, and if you can watch that without misty eyes and a lump in your throat you’re a harder man than I. We shouldn’t isolate our thankfulness and gratitude to God and these honored dead to two days a year. In some countries, the gathering we participated in today could have ended in jail or worse for us. Let’s try daily not to take what we have been blessed with for granted, and pray for those that are in worse situations.
MOLESKIN:
I hate that everyone wasn’t able to make the GrowRuck, but barring that I can’t think of a better way to spend the morning. I missed everyone this week while I was hacking up my lungs! Hope you men can avoid the crud going around. Big props to Peach Fuzz for rounding out the burpees with an extra effort! Great drive from everyone this morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2.0 Workout this afternoon.

Ape (Couldn’t) Escape

November 6, 2017 Waxjob

THE SCENE: Ridiculously warm for November. Sweating anticipated. Promise of rain… eventually.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Windmills x15 IC
2 Burpees OYO
LBAC x20 IC fwd and back
4 Burpees OYO
Imperial Walkers x15 IC
6 Burpees OYO
Cossack Squats x10 or so
8 Burpees OYO
Pickle Pusher Merkins x10 IC
RIP Bartman’s shoes
Hand clap under high knees x20 IC
Finish out the warmup: 10 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey toward the maintenance building. Stop halfway in the parking lot, use lines for

Lunges
Bear Crawl
Crab Walk
Sprint

Continue mosey to the retaining wall behind the maintenance building

Ape Escape: Feet on the wall, grab the bottom of the fence and traverse the entire wall sideways.
Dang, that’s way too hard! No apes gonna escape today.
Drop to the ground, bear crawl to the end of the wall instead.

Grab a landscaping CMU and head to the top of the stairs

Curls x30
Lying CMU pullovers x20
Weighted BBS x20

Head back downstairs and grab another CMU for Round the Block Merkins: Set CMUs with rough sides facing outward, wide merkin width apart. One merkin with hands on blocks, then maintain plank and flip blocks on side, one merkin. Flip blocks forward to angled side, one merkin, flip blocks backward to other angled side, one merkin. R&R some number of times.

20 OHP, and it’s time to return the CMUs. Mosey to the grassy hill, Bernie up for 20 more BBS, then mosey back toward the AO, stopping halfway for 20 dips.

MARY:
4 rounds of Row Row Row your Boat (simultaneous Boat/Canoe and American Hammers)
Hello Dollys x21 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’m heading to Washington DC tomorrow with a couple busloads of 7th graders from CAK for their big field trip. Supposedly I’m one of the adults… It’s a great opportunity for the kids to go and see where decisions are made that affect the entire country, and even the world. To some degree, our ability as individuals to affect those decisions doesn’t seem so great, but the Bible says that the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Throughout scripture and history we can see how God can work His will through kings and other leaders, even those who are intentionally trying to go against Him. Don’t forget to lift up our leaders daily in prayer.
MOLESKIN:

The rain held off just long enough for us to get done, with a little bit of cooling sprinkle coming in on the BOM. Just my second visit out to JUCO, and look forward to many more beatdowns out there. Love to see the puddles of sweat that accumulate under brothers working hard to get better together!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayer: Safe travels for CAK group and for Bartman’s son on a band trip. Booster’s friend JJ (sp?) who is losing a leg to arthritis.
Announce: Abscess and Steam leading LeConte hike next weekend.

Zero Burpees

October 31, 2017 Waxjob

THE SCENE: Clear and crisp, couldn’t be better to finish out October with a bang!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
2 FNGs! Welcome!
WARM-O-RAMA:
Halloween treat was promised: a workout with zero burpees. Therefore:

Zero Burpees IC
Recover
SSH x20 IC
2 Burpees OYO
TN Rocking Chairs x20 IC (I think some people got it figured out by rep 20)
4 Burpees OYO
Pickle Pusher Merkins x10 IC (1-Down 2-Push your Pickle Parallel to the Pavement 3-Pull out 4-Up)
6 Burpees OYO
Imperial Walkers x15 IC
8 Burpees OYO
Al Gore Tuck Jumps x6 IC (hold Al Gore for 10 count, explode to Tuck Jump)
10 Burpees OYO
LBAC x20 each fwd/back IC

Mosey to the Scrapyard

THA-THANG:
Increasing rep circuit:

Pullups	1	2	3	4	5
Squat Jumps	2	4	6	8	10
Dips	3	6	9	12	15
BBS	4	8	12	16	20
Across the Grinder:	Crab Fwd	Bear Fwd	Burpee Broad Jump	Bernie
Return trip:	Crab Rev	Bear Rev	Mosey	Bernie

Blacksnake around the park, 2 stops.

Stop 1: Partner up, share 50 BBS. They only count if partner is in Al Gore

Stop 2: Partner up, share 40 Squirkins: P1 holds up P2 feet, does squats while P2 does merkins

MARY:
No time for Mary today
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 PAX including 2 FNGs: Butterfingers and Iceman
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With today being Halloween, you’re going to see a lot of people wearing masks. As you see those outward masks, take a moment to think about the masks and disguises that people around us wear every day. There may be deep wounds or scars that they do their best not to show. The way we interact and respond to them can either entrench that mask even more deeply or it can help loosen it a bit.

With that in mind, as you go through your day give grace to others if they react or respond to you in a negative or unexpected way. They may be acting from a place of that pain that they are trying so hard to keep hidden. As you show grace and demonstrate Christ’s love in the situation, you can be an instrument that God uses to bring healing.

Also, examine yourself and see what masks you may be wearing. Not that you should always be an open book and dump everything on everyone, but consider who may be in your life that you’re hiding from. Cultivate those deeper relationships that go behind the masks and into the heart of who you truly are.
MOLESKIN:
I love seeing this AO taking off! What a solid group of HIMs working hard to get better, and growing every time! It was an honor to lead you today. Keep up the EHing!

New record for Al Gore Tuck Jumps – 6 today! I’ll keep Q’ing ’em up until we can crank out 10…

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No Bomb Shelter workout this Saturday… Convergence at the Asylum at 7. Every Knoxville AO coming together for one workout. It will be epic, you don’t want to miss it! New location for the 2nd anniversary potluck – details to follow on GroupMe.

Buck in a Yoga Room

October 30, 2017 Ratchet

THE SCENE: 30 and unexpectedly cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Imperial Walkers x 15 IC

Windmills x 15 IC

Cherry Pickers x 15 IC

SSH x 15 IC

Mountain Climbers x 15 IC

Plank Jacks x 15 IC

Squat x 15 IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Side-Lot

11’s (circles)

Top Burpees

Bottom Merkins

Plank until everyone finishes.

Mosey back to AO via benches for 40 step-ups

#135 For Time:

21 Squats 42 Ice Skaters

15 Squats 30 Ice Skaters

9 Squats 18 Ice Skaters

Find a Battlebuddy

21 High-Five Low Knuckles Burpees

15 Pistol squats – each leg

9 High-Five Low Knuckles Burpees
MARY:

Side Crunches

American Hammers (Captain’ would be proud!)

Flutter Kicks

Hello Dolly!

Plank-o-Rama

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 PAX!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Don’t charge forward without having a plan and knowing the context of where your plan might take you!

The Story of TTTP!

October 29, 2017 Mayberry One comment

Truckin to the Pound (TTTP) F3 Knoxville’s first CSAUP event organized by the PAX is in the books!

The idea was hatched months ago around a campfire at Junk’s place. You know the kind of campfire, somebody makes a joke about running from one AO to the next, one guy thinks it’s a great idea, two guys think he’s crazy, the rest of the PAX in attendance join in and the pack mentally revealed a CSAUP event… Of course it had to have a name, plus Swirlie said he’d only do it if he got a shirt, and TTTP was born.

Lots of planning, emails, text and GroupMe messages, and laughter later resulted in a route being created. Q’s volunteered and were assigned their AO, date was picked, swim was added then just as quickly discarded. You see the event was planned for all the guys who want to go do an OCR or Ragnar relay or some other crazy event but due to time, expenses, responsibilities, or adulting can’t always make that happen.

The morning of the event was here and we were greeted by a cold, windy, and rainy morning. Perfect weather for a CSAUP event. A little before the scheduled 0600 departure time, 28 PAX descended on the Truck Stop AO. Pulling into the Truck Stop it looked someone bought all the reflective tape in Knoxville and was working to create their own runway. There were guys in shorts and short sleeves, pants and sweatshirts, rain jackets, headlamps, hats, gloves, rucksacks, La-z-boy was sporting a poncho, and Ratchet had on a bra. But if nothing else we were ready.

THE THANG: Mosey from Truck Stop AO to Dog Pound AO about 8ish miles with 4 mini Qs along the way.

Kicking us off at the Truck Stop was Frosty:
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Ssh x 20
Rockets
Windmills
Domo squats

10 squats, run to middle light
3 burpees, run to next light
5 thruster Perkins, Sprint back
3x

Mosey to Anchor Park where Swirlie steps up to Q
40 drydocs
Lunge parking lot
Bear crawl parking lot
Wheelbarrow parking lot

Mosey to the memorials on Evans Road

100 Merkins in honor of those who have sacrificed their lives for others.

Mosey to Anchor Park where La-z-boy lays the beatdown

Partner Workout
Partner A Lizard Merkins
Partner B Bear Crawls Reverse and Fwd
Imperial Walkers x 15 IC
PA – Flamingos
PB – Crab walks reverse and fwd
Merkins IC x 15
PA Mtn Climber
PB Gorilla Shuffle
Butt kickers for the win

Final mosey to the Dog Pound for Mayberry (who knew Concord Road had that big of a hill?)

Sandbag work, Pull-ups, Burpees, and squats

And it goes without saying that I think every member of the PAX was thankful we not only had vehicle support for waters, gear, and keys, but Junk patrolled the PAX shouting encouragement and blasting hair band music to keep us going.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What stared as a crazy idea never would have happened without the help of my friends. God puts us where He wants us, and uses us as He needs us. What I also found out is how awesome the men who planned this are. Swirlie, Frosty, La-z-boy, and Toto all were instrumental in getting this thing going. This event taught me to count on your friends, He puts us where He wants us, but He also puts them into our lives too. Even with Frosty overly worrying about the details, none of this event would have been possible without good friends. I encourage each of you to go out and be the example of Jesus that He wants you to be, and allow Him to use you as He wants to use you.

We celebrated Swirlie leaving early to bring his baby girl home from the hospital after over a month in the NICU! Our God is good.